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I'm assuming that 'cylinder' is a live explosive. I think they don't want to accidentally puncture the shell.

it might elude you how ridiculously fucking expensive stuff gets

I don't know how that scales to worldwide CDN setup, but I work with a company who has presense on multiple countries and they drop casually 150-200k to few servers alone which provide services for at maximum for couple of thousand users. Networking, labor, power and things like that not included, just the hardware in a cardboard boxes.

Obviously there's a ton of factors on this and I can't elaborate our setup any further for obvious reasons, but just to give some scale how expensive things can get I can share my very real world experience. And that setup is pretty much the low end on the spectrum. 10k a month for a any as-a-service setup is almost a rounding error even with relatively low user count.

Serving anything to 100+ million people globally is a whole another beast. Wikipedia is a decent comparison, running a single website which looks like relatively simple to the end user (and oh boy it is not, but your Joe Average doesn't know nor care about that) takes around 170 million dollars per year just on operating costs.

I don't have any kind of opionion if that 30% is reasonable, but I do know that running that beast is not cheap and the money needs to come from somewhere. And as a customer, Steam just offers me what I want in a package which is the best one around, so they'll keep getting my pennies until something better comes along. And I'm very aware that their service is not perfect and that I don't really own anything on their platform, but for me in the current state in my life, they just provide the best bang for my buck and for the very limited time I have to spend with gaming.

Overall, how long do you think you could cope without your HA platform before it becomes an issue?

It will never become an issue. As I mentioned, all the smart things I have can still be controlled manually. Sure, things like timing energy consumption to cheaper hours and turning on outside lights when it gets dark either stop working or needs to be manually controlled, but it would be more an annoyance than a issue.

And when planning for expansions I'm pretty strict that things stay that way. Everything has to work without HA, internet connectivity or anything at all besides obviously having electricity. Automations are just icing on the cake and they can save a few bucks here and there and offer quality of life functionality, but I'd never rely on those alone. Manual override has to be always an option.

I don't really have an recovery strategy in place, but what I do have is that all the smart stuff in my home can be controlled manually too. Light switches work just like dumb ones, thermostats have manual buttons and so on. So even if the server goes down I can still control everything manually. Obviously automations won't work, but the house isn't crippled if that single raspberry decides to go belly up.

There's a ton of things I left out as they're not really relevant for the discussion. Back when phone line modems were the only option for me to connect to the internet even dialing to different area code in my country took away a ton of bandwidth and it was more expensive. As you know, that 50kbps is pretty much the best case scenario and even on that case it's practically useless on todays internet/www.

In rural Belarus with soviet era cabling you'd be lucky to get even a half of that so on the modern web, with image downloads and javascript disabled, it'd still take several minutes to get a single news article to your screen. Our government owned news outlet still offers a web based rendering of teletext-service (and the real thing too) from the 70's and it's pretty much just pure text with very little overhead included and even with that you can only get about 10 words per second with 50kbps line.

And in reality, where things have overhead and theoretical maximum is very rarely reached, it's more than likely that you can read faster than you can move information over a dial-up line.

Modern web won't work too well over dial-up, bandwidth requirements have gone way up. Even with pretty good lines you'll only get around 50kbps and loading the front page on my lemmy instance pulls almost 10MB of data. So that alone would take over 20 minutes. Our local news site pulls over 25MB and I assume any commercial site with ads would take even more.

Obvously you can still run things like usenet, which helps with bandwidth requirements, have local wifi-mesh with proxies and so on, but a single telephone line is still practically nothing. Even 100 dial-up lines with perfectly managed proxies could only support a handful of users of any kind, even when restricting access heavily.

Wide mesh wifi networks with 4G/5G uplinks from neighboring countries would be far more useful. Starlink even more so, but that's a whole another beast to manage for various reasons. And then there's things like microwave links which can give you even gigabits of bandwidth across 10-20km.

It's a 4 hour old troll account, no need to feed them.

Apparently it is just from yesterday.

Muista kirjoittaa tähän kappale miten tallennusvälineen tai -piirin sisältävä laite tyhjenntään tietoturvallisesti ettei kotivideot pääse vuotamaan.

Tämä taisi kuitenkin unohtua ;)

Tietokoneiden kohdalla tämä on aika helppoa, kiintolevy irti (katso netistä ohjeet omalle koneelle) ja mekaaninen tuhoaminen on varsin varma tapa hoitaa homma. Kännyköissä tämä on vähän vaikeampaa, kun se massamuisti ei ole mitenkään päin irrotettavissa. Mekaaninen rikkominen toimii toki kännyköidenkin kanssa, mutta sitä akkua ei sitten lyödä vasaralla missään tapauksessa, eli se vaatii vähän enemmän vaivannäköä.

Sitten jos laitteet lähtevät käyntiin, niin kännyköiden tehdaspalautus on monelle riittävän varma tapa hävittää omat tiedot, etenkin jos laitteen tiedot on suojattu ensin pin-koodilla (l. lukituksella joka myös salaa tiedot), jolloin niiden palautus on joko hyvin hyvin vaikeaa tai täysin mahdotonta.

There's all kinds of commercial military drones around and they're obviously far more refined and thought out than this one, but it's equally crazy/impressive that with todays tehcnology pretty much any individual can just buy a drone and strap an actual rifle to it. Sure, it's not accurate by any stretch, but if you have few thousand dollars laying around (and a access to firearms) you could to this too.

That would obviously be a Really Bad Idea(tm) for multiple reasons, but from a purely technical view it's fairly simple.

Oh, I forgot to mention, I'm going to run the whole thing on a VPS, so I'll have access to proper reverse dns and all, so that's not an issue.

It’s definitely a game that is more about the journey than the destination.!

Well said. That's absolutely correct.